45 Responses to “Let Us Hear No More of the Word “Cut””

Ray LaHood, the Sec Trans, is a member of the corrupt Illinois “combine” that runs the state and is composed of both parties. Unfortunately, the previous Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert, is also a member and made sure his kids were well taken care of, like Harry Reid’s kids, while he was in office.

One of the things that frustrates me about the electorate is that if the American people really had any backbone at all, then whenever politicians tried this trick during budget crises of threatening to cut essential services first they’d be immediately recalled.

Heck, if we had any backbone, we’d tar and feather them and ride them out of town on a rail as was traditional.

Campbell subbing for Hewitt said that obviously the Mayans got it only a little wrong, the real end of the world will happen when the sequester goes into effect, at least it will if what obama says is true (which it isn’t)

maybe people should have sequester parties? probably not, too many people wouldn’t get it

I’m still waiting for a refund on my 2011 taxes which I filed on 10/15/12. They haven’t sent me a notice saying they found any discrepancies and when I check “Where’s My Refund” it says my return is still being processed. As far as I’m concerned, they’re hanging on to cash because of the debt ceiling. It’s already been reported that 2012 refunds are behind schedule.

Finally, the Court pointed to the practical difficulties (noted above) of detecting individualized signs of impairment in the setting of a steel plant in which employees wear masks and other heavy equipment. In this context, it’s worth pointing out again that the EEOC’s pre-suit investigation was so poor that, as the Court found, the EEOC didn’t bother to visit the plant in question before it filed suit. Your tax dollars at work — or in this instance, not.

…If this suit is typical of the kinds of lawsuit the government brings — and in my 35 years of practicing law, it is not a complete outlier — then the sequester can’t come soon enough. Sadly, though, just as with “fraud, waste, and abuse,” governmental absurdity seems immune from cuts.

What the GOP ought to do while the Obama administration is wailing about how disaster looms is monitor what the feds keep doing. And publicize it.

While actively endangering national defense and public safety in their classic “shoot the hostage” negotiating technique they’ll keep doing the above kind of crap. Which, really is just another variation of their “shoot the hostage” impulse.

But you don’t understand, the DOT projected a 2013 budget of $74.2 billion and it is being cut $1 billion. That’s a real cut in government accounting. Never mind that their 2013 cut budget of $73.2 billion is $600 million more than the 2012 budget of $72.6 billion, their 2013 budget was cut.

“Cut”, from my understanding is to only cut the additional spending. Kind of like cutting the end of a tree branch (or weed), but letting it continue to grow. It’s only a slowdown of the continued spending.

Found this book, A TIME TO STAND by Oliver & it’s provocative so I recommend it. It’s about decent Americans taking a stand against federal tyranny & ends up the small, American town folks end up starting the 2nd American Revolution. It’s good & the sequel THE DIARY is even better so I recommend it for what’s happening nowadays.

IF the spending cuts can go to the core of our government then we’ll see real reductions in spending, but this isn’t what all today’s news is about. It’s only a smoke screen & I am sure, from what they have said, 800,000 people will not/not lose their jobs. More scare tactics.

I suggest the GOP stop talking about cuts but rather stand for a spending freeze! All of us out here have had to actually find real cuts in our budgets to cover the rising cost of living. Let us see how the Dems can possibly defend against freezing the massive federal budget. That would give us a true ‘cut’ without having to defend it. With the wars winding down and Obama’s ‘recovery’ going into its fourth year surely we can freeze spending! Make the Dems defend increasing the federal budget!

Well, if we have to have a “Baseline”, how about we use the FY-1989 Budget?
Otherwise, we should revert back to the the parameters contained in the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (and repeal the 1974 Budgeting Act).

My sense is that people got pretty worn out with the “fiscal cliff” crisis meme and are therefore a little more skepical about (or perhaps bored with) the “sequestration” crisis meme. The Obama admin’s need to keep the citizenry bathed in a constant state of crisis adreneline may be reaching levels too much for even average lazy Americans to bear.

BTW, does the next crisis meme have a name yet? Is there a list they keep somewhere like the hurricane name list?

Unemployment has been around 8% (officially, it’s higher) for 4 years. While private sector workers lost their jobs the size of the federal civilian workforce has grown under Obama.

Now that the pain (relatively slight) is hitting the bureaucrats, hold on a minute, now we have a crisis!

…God only knows how America will survive without BLS economists and unemployment quality assurance workers on the job for a few less days a year. We all know it’s jobs like that which make America great.

…The GOP shouldn’t be running away from sequester and blaming Obama, they should be apologizing to the American people that this is the best they can do.

I wish someone would ask Obama why it’s OK for his administration to forge an “expert opinion” to justify a moratorium that puts productive Gulf oil industry workers to go on unemployment and food stamps, but not for former federal workers to do the same.

Nancy Pelosi tells me that unemployment benefits are the best stimulus there is; isn’t it just as stimulative for ex-federal employees to be receiving those benefits, too?